Denial of Service Vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF

CVE-2016-8875 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The ConvertToPDF plugin in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows, when the gflags app is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted TIFF image, aka "Data from Faulting Address is used as one or more arguments in a subsequent Function Call starting at ConvertToPDF_x86!CreateFXPDFConvertor."

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